That is true and this will be fixed for the release candidate. However Debian 8 is now no longer Debian's current stable release so I wasn't prioritizing this issue. If the lack of a Debian 8 distribution is preventing anyone from testing please let me know. Cheers, - Ben On June 17, 2019 6:24:16 AM EDT, Matthew Pickering wrote:

There seems to be no debian8 bindist which is different from every release at least back to ghc-8.0.1.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 8:36 PM Ben Gamari wrote:

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Hello everyone,

The GHC team is pleased to announce the second and likely last alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions,

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documentation are available at

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha2

A draft of the release notes is also available [1].

This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred contributors and has several new features and numerous bug fixes relative to GHC 8.6:

* Profiling now works correctly on 64-bit Windows (although still may be problematic on 32-bit Windows due to platform limitations; see #15934)

* A new code layout algorithm for amd64's native code generator

* The introduction of a late lambda-lifting pass which may reduce allocations significantly for some programs.

* Further work on Trees That Grow, enabling improved code re-use of

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Haskell AST in tooling

* More locations where users can write `forall` (GHC Proposal #0007)

* Further work on the Hadrian build system

This release brings a number of fixes since alpha 1:

* A number of linker fixes (#16779, #16784)

* The process, binary, Cabal, time, terminfo libraries have all been bumped to their final release versions

* A regression rendering TemplateHaskell unusable in cross-compiled configurations has been fixed (#16331)

* A regression causing compiler panics on compilation of some

and the programs

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has been fixed (#16449)

* -Wmissing-home-modules now handles hs-boot files correctly (#16551)

* A regression causing some programs to fail at runtime has been fixed (#16066)

Due to on-going work on our release and testing infrastructure this cycle is proceeding at a pace significantly slower than expected. However, we anticipate that this investment will allow us to release a more reliable, easier-to-install compiler on the planned six-month release cadence in the future.

As always, if anything looks amiss do let us know.

Happy compiling!

Cheers,

- Ben

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